For those of you who have attended our volleyball clinics for coaches, you have heard us say that “Volleyball is a visual skill with an emphasis on the visua...

For those of you who have attended one of our volleyball clinics, you will know that we discuss what a waste of time stretching is during practice.  I know, ...

Is the Split-Step Worth Teaching in Volleyball? We have been experimenting with a step-hop (or split-step in Tennis) with our passers, and have been encourag...

Here is a common question we get, voiced in an email from a clinic attendee. “I’d like to get an opinion from you. I’m concerned about the direction my club ...

This summer’s Olympics got us thinking: how do we as managers and leaders become coaches who elicit greatness in others? A study of the coach-athlete relatio...

While out working coaching clinics and summer volleyball camps, it’s common for us to engage in conversation regarding training different ages and genders.  ...

One of the “hot button” items at our coaching clinics is when Carl discards the notion of general athletic ability and lays out the overwhelming scientific e...

An interesting article about the effectiveness of training wheels.  What are some other examples in youth sports where the training methods contradict what w...

One of the many debts I owe to Ron Larsen is the day he handed me a study taken of John Wooden’s feedback. The study codified Wooden’s coaching and linked it...

We have had several requests for a blog post that address common volleyball injuries. So I spoke with Blain Empey, an athletic trainer about the most common ...

Another post  from Dr. Steve Bain, who not only knows a lot about neuro-science, but is becoming quite a good volleyball coach as well.  He recently did us t...

In Chico CA, NFL football has been particularly exciting to watch over the last couple of years.  Aaron Rodgers is a hometown hero and it’s been thrilling to...

This post comes to us from Dr. Steve Bain, who not only knows a lot about neuro-science, but is becoming quite a good volleyball coach as well.  Last year at...

Let’s call this CONCEPT ONE. In our GMS coaching clinics we often say that initial ability and final ability are not highly correlated. We think this is a ve...

If you’re like me, “Hoosiers” is one of your favorite all-time sports films. I love everything about it; the discipline, the one last chance element, the con...

Gil Fellingham is a statistics professor at BYU, and is responsible for many of the volleyball studies done here at GMS.  This is an interesting read, and as...

There has been a lot of talk in the volleyball community about the central premise of Gold Medal Squared, and the misconception that “GMS says there is only ...

Why is Olympic gold medalist, Shaun White, affectionately known as the “flying tomato,” the only skateboarder to land a front-side, heel-flip, 540 body varia...

Annie Murphy Paul wrote an article that was published in the NY Times on September 10, 2011 titled The Trouble with Homework. (You can read it yourself here)...

This is one of the original “articles” from our old website; we are reposting the entire series here on our blog. Dr. Steve Bain, a longtime friend of GMS an...